The Vegan Challenge | pt.1
- Liem Doan
- Aug 10, 2016
- 2 min read
I. love. meat.
Nothing gives me a smile like the caress of a succulent tendered beef burger upon my lips. Smothered in a explosion of soft cheddar cheese with a glaze of mayonnaise and accompanied soon after with a gloriously steaming brewed cuppa tea.
When the 12th hour hand struck to announce the day of August 1st. I set myself to undergo the most terrifying lifestyle choice ever to be made in the modern age.
Before you get any ideas, this isn’t going to be some fairy tale story about my emotional, eye opening journey to the infamous life choice that is Veganism.
But first, what is Veganism?
Vegans do not eat meat, fish, or poultry or use other animal products and by-products such as eggs, dairy products, honey, leather, fur, silk, wool, cosmetics, and soaps derived from animal products. - www,vrg.org/nutshell/vegan
I bet your initial thought would be that I’m just another typical hippy dippy liberal youth who is also a progressive left wing feminist narcissist with an exotic sexual preference to pans who has a overly hipster like dress code and an obsession with lives of animals.
Well although all of that is true... besides over-sentimentality to animals. I for one, am no hero when it comes to the vegan values. 2 years ago, I would of gracefully spit on the vegan fundamentalism as it dared challenged my dietary love for meat. Yet I find myself extraordinary position in taking on this challenge in which it is understandably a difficult life choice to make.
My aim for this month, is to experience first hand what its like to be a vegan in modern society. Where the Vegan community is constantly barraged with negativity day in day out, most of the time humorously and out of bad taste... I should know, I took the piss out of it all the time. I attempt to break this convoluted imagery of Vegans and push the message of what being Vegan actually is, in a non-bias approach as possible. Because, frankly I'm not overly passionate about animals, and I wish I was. But I am curious about what makes being a Vegan so inciting and how we, the population could ever live in a Vegan world.
In the upcoming weeks I’ll be venturing you down the brewing social movement that has seemingly captivated the western world.
We will be going through my own personal adventures, experiences and I'll be answering blogs on:
How to be a Vegan.
Struggles of a Vegan.
Benefits/ Non-benefits of being Vegan.
Being a Modern Day Vegan.
Our planet and its future as a Vegan.
I hope you can join me, on this ridiculous journey.
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